6 Hair Highlight Tips And 24 Trendiest Ideas

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Hair highlights can do wonders to bring out your hair’s most attractive shades, as well as complement your eyes and complexion, if done correctly. Adding highlights to your stands will create hair texture and add dimension to your look.

Maintenance

For highlights that will look good when growing out, use a darker hair color at your roots that blends to a lighter tone at the tips of your hair. Good highlights last for three months. It’s always a bad idea to over-highlight you hair — less is more!

When you don’t have the time or the cash for highlights, ask for a color-refreshing rinse. It takes just five minutes and is a fraction of the cost of highlighting. So you can look great on-the-go without breaking the bank.

If you’re adding highlights to your hair for a big event, such as your wedding hairstyle, get the highlights done at least 2 weeks beforehand to allow time for your hair and the highlight color to settle.

ashy brunette ombre highlights

ashy brunette ombre highlights

black hair with caramel and brown highlights

black hair with caramel and brown highlights

brond hair color with balayage highlights

brond hair color with balayage highlights

brown and caramel hair with blonde highlights

brown and caramel hair with blonde highlights

brown hair with blonde highlights

brown hair with blonde highlights

brown hair with caramel and light highlights

brown hair with caramel and light highlights

brown hair with caramel highlights

brown hair with caramel highlights

brown highlights and lowlights on a blonde base

brown highlights and lowlights on a blonde base

brunette hair with sun-kissed highlights

brunette hair with sun-kissed highlights

caramel blonde highlights on brown hair

caramel blonde highlights on brown hair

curly brown hair with blonde highlights

curly brown hair with blonde highlights

Colors

Brunettes don’t need a full head of highlights. Have your colorist paint lighter pieces into your hair before rinsing out your color. This creates depth and dimension that enhances the natural tone of your hair. To give your hair a brighter look, opt for highlights in a blonde or gold tone. For a dark, deeper effect, try lowlights in plum, auburn or chestnut. For blondes, using lowlights will help you get a darker look without drastically changing all of your hair.

Highlights can be used to cover up or break up the look of grey hair and is especially effective on blonde hair colors.

For natural, sun-kissed looking highlights use natural hair colors in thin strands around your face or sparingly through any bangs.

dark blonde hair with blonde highlights

dark blonde hair with blonde highlights

dark brown and caramel balayage highlights

dark brown and caramel balayage highlights

dark brown hair with honey and light brown highlights

dark brown hair with honey and light brown highlights

dark brown hair with subtle highlights

dark brown hair with subtle highlights

dark brown with chestnut highlights

dark brown with chestnut highlights

dirty blonde hair with highlights

dirty blonde hair with highlights

light brown base with graduated blonde highlights

light brown base with graduated blonde highlights

light brown hair with caramel highlights

light brown hair with caramel highlights

light brunette balayage highlights

light brunette balayage highlights

multi-colored highlights on a brown base

multi-colored highlights on a brown base

naturally sunkissed bronde highlights

naturally sunkissed bronde highlights

neutral pale blonde highlights and lowlights

neutral pale blonde highlights and lowlights

warm chocolate brown base with golden blonde highlights

warm chocolate brown base with golden blonde highlights